The 2017 Ontario Natural Building Coalition's annual

Natural Building Conference & AGM 2017

was held on April 1 and 2, 2017, at Camp Kawartha, near Lakefield.

This year's theme was: "Building Natural Resilience: In our Houses and our Lives"

Thanks for a great conference everyone! See you next year.

This year's Conference Sponsors were:

Gold Sponsors:

www.zonengineering.com

Silver Sponsors:

Architecture and Interior Design http://architects-interiordesigners.com

Bronze Sponsors:

	www.homesolbuildingsolutions.com	www.livingrooms.ws	www.livingsol.com

http://straworks.ca                                       http://endeavourcentre.org

Photos of the 2016 conference here.

Click here for photos of the 2015 conference.

Click here for an article and photos of the 2014 conference.

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The Ontario Natural Building Coalition's Annual Ontario Natural Building Tour

Natural building construction uses locally obtained and renewable materials, to produce homes and buildings that are visually unique and healthy to live in, while striving to keep energy consumption and its’ associated emissions as low as possible. As a way of promoting natural building, the Ontario Natural Building Coalition coordinates an annual Natural Homes Tour on the first Sunday of October each year. This year our tour took place on Sunday October 2. For this tour, thirty-three natural homes and buildings across Ontario opened their doors to hundreds of participants to see examples of straw bale, rammed earth, cob, timber frame, off grid, passive solar, and many other natural building methods and alternative technologies. Watch our website next fall for details on our 2017 tour.

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Visit our Natural Building Gallery to see houses built out of straw, wood & earth!

A Natural Home Tours Thank You

Over the years, many homes and buildings have participated in our Natural Building Annual tour.

Many of the homes that have been featured were models of innovation and energy efficiency and featured living roofs, natural clay wall finishes, rainwater catchment systems, grey water systems, composting toilets, while others incorporated solar and wind electrical systems, high efficiency wood burning appliances, solar domestic hot water systems, as well as a variety of other interesting green technologies.

The Ontario Natural Building Coalition would like to thank all the volunteer homeowners who have over the years graciously opened their doors and welcomed tour-goers. The annual tour would not be possible without them!

Click here for an article about one of the homes on our recent tour.